Hmmm, well that's an unexpected error. Looks like a change has been made to Fedora since I last compiled GAP. I'm gonna have to research this issue a little and get back with you with a tweak to the makefile or an additional parm to ./configure command. I'll be out of pocket for the rest of the afternoon but I'll research this issue when I get back.

As to your questions, once we get Step(2) make to compile+link without error, you can proceed to Step(3) and run make install to actually install the plug-in. You will need to execute Step(3) make install as superuser (su -) because it actually installs several files into system folders. When you login as superuser, it defaults to the root file system folder so you have to change directories back to the gimp-gap-2.6.0 folder before running make install.

yum is only used to install pre-packaged binaries (RPMs). Since we are compiling and installing manually, yum is not relevant to the make install process.

We're almost there.

Thank You Tux, I really appreciate it.

Yvw, Molly.

Thanks to a hint from a thread over at Fedora forums, indeed there is a tweak that you need to make to the one of the files before your begin your 3 step compile & install process in Fedora 16. It's best to just delete the old gimp-gap-2.6.0 folder and extract the files from the gimp-gap-2.6.0.tar.bz2 archive so we can start clean.

After you've dumped the old gimp-gap-2.6.0 folder, extract the files from gimp-gap-2.6.0.tar.bz2 and navigate to the /gimp-gap-2.6.0/gap/ folder. Open the file Makefile.in using gedit. (make sure you open Makefile.in located in the gap folder, not the Makefile.in located the gimp-gap-2.6.0 folder)

Add -lm to the end of line 313 (that's a lower case L in -lm, not an I or a 1), changing it from..
to
Save the changes to Makefile.in.

If you don't want to mess with those manual edits, you can just use this archive that I've already patched for Fedora 16


Then, start your 3 step process again, beginning with (1) ./configure. then (2) make, as you have done previously. Gap should compile clean, with the last few lines displaying this (assuming you've located the folder at: /home/Molly/gimp-gap-2.6.0).
You then need to login as superuser (su -), change back over to: cd /home/Molly/gimp-gap-2.6.0 and proceed to step (3) (make sure GIMP is not running).
That will install the plug-in and you should see GIMP Gap's video menu.

Wow, When I got up and saw this I almost freaked out. Anyway, when I got near the bottom with the one, two, three steps, it was a piece of cake.
I just used your patched edition and it went like clock work. woo hoo.

Thank you so much, you are a marvel...

I will keep those instrucs handy for the next person that has Fedora 16 and wants GAP

attachments below of the terminal and the GAP dropdown thang.

That's good news!

Now that you have all the development stuff installed, future compiling should be snap.

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